Danmachi - Infinite Mana System!

Chapter 28 - Rescuing My Family.

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Lucius POV
Dungeon, Eighteenth Floor.

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Dungeon, Eighteenth Floor.

When I arrived in Rivira, the floor was completely dark as it was midnight when I arrived, and the city was quieter compared to what was happening in the afternoon. Without haste, I went to the same inn where I had stayed the night before and went to sleep.

When I woke up in the morning, I felt that the city was more bustling than yesterday afternoon. Just by listening to the streets from my room, many voices were excited. After a meal, I went out to see all the commotion and heard people talking about a new group that arrived on the floor after a dive where few can go, 1% of adventurers to be exact. I was happy to hear this, with even more sincerity when I found out who they were talking about. Despite our differences, their presence here is like a warning for me to go back a few floors at this moment.

On the street, there were high-class adventurers walking calmly, as if they were already used to this attention.
"Look, it's her! The sword princess!!!"
"They are returning from the deep floors..."
"How far did their expedition go?!" "The Loki family is so cool!"
"It's Captain Finn!" "The Amazons are so hot!" I tried to avoid my disgusted expression at these comments, made by fanboys and fangirls. I would be embarrassed to hear them act this way.

"Princess Riviera is so beautiful....OUCH! WHO ARE YOU? WHY DID YOU HIT ME!?"
Leaving the crowd with veins popping on my forehead, after hitting one of them, I headed towards my goal now. I was wearing different clothing now, leather armor that I bought at a quite bitter price, but I had no choice since my beautiful torn coat, I had to leave it at the inn.

Instead of continuing down to the nineteenth floor, I headed towards the stairs leading to the floors above us. Now that the Loki family has returned from the deep floors, Bell, Welf, and Lili must be getting into trouble because of my fencing teacher's group, Mikoto-Sensei. As a member of the Hestia family, I will have to rescue them. Entering the Goliath's room, that monster that showed no sign of spawning yet, I continued climbing the floors. Killing everything I encountered, it was on the sixteenth floor that I found my targets injured and in despair.

Bell POV
Dungeon, Fifteenth Floor.

It was nothing like I imagined when we entered the intermediate floors; we underestimated the place and found ourselves in danger as soon as that group of adventurers brought more monsters to corner us while fleeing.

I was trapped in my thoughts and was interrupted as Lili began to speak in the silence.
"If we want to survive, we have to reach the eighteenth floor..." Lili said.

"Hey, wait! Go down even further?" I said a bit worried.

"The enemies have become tougher!" Welf said, equally concerned.

"The eighteenth floor is one of the safest areas of the dungeon; we'll have a better chance going there than returning to the surface in our conditions!" Lili asserted and argued her point of view.

"But how are we going to get there?" I asked.

"We'll use the wall holes! The intermediate floors are full of them! It's easier to go down than up," Lili asserted.

"And the Goliath? The boss of the seventeenth floor?" Welf asked about the boss I've heard so much about.

"I heard that the Loki family defeated him when they descended a week ago. It takes time for him to respawn. If we go there, we can pass without facing the titan," she said.